Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are divorced and legally single, ending the 19-year marriage of one in all leisure’s most outstanding energy {couples}
A Nashville, Tennessee, choose issued an order at a listening to Tuesday dissolving the wedding of the Oscar-winning actor and the Grammy-winning nation singer.
Judge Stephanie J. Williams stated in a court docket submitting that the couple’s settlements on splitting property and baby custody are ample, and granted them the divorce.
Williams wrote that “there exist such irreconcilable difference between the parties that would render continuation of the marriage impractical and impossible.”
Both Kidman and Urban waived their proper to look on the listening to.
Messages to their representatives looking for remark weren’t instantly answered.
Kidman filed for divorce in September. The famous person cut up was a shock to many of the public, however it had clearly been within the works for some time. All the authorized points involving property and custody had been settled and signed the day of her submitting.
Tennessee requires a 90-day ready interval for {couples} with minor kids earlier than a divorce can take impact.
Kidman and Urban, each 58, have two teenage daughters collectively. Their divorce submitting stated they’d “marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences.”
The plan they signed states that Kidman can be the first residential dad or mum to the kids. It recommended they might stay dwelling in Nashville as they’ve all their lives. The submitting states that neither dad or mum would wish baby or spousal assist, and lays out a roughly equal division of their joint property.
Two of the largest stars to come back out of Australia in current a long time, Kidman and Urban met in Los Angeles in 2005 and have been married in Sydney the next 12 months. They have been pink carpet fixtures all through their two-decade relationship, with Urban becoming a member of his spouse on the Oscars and Kidman attending music occasions just like the Academy of Country Music Awards. The couple had publicly however lovingly described some marital difficulties, but there have been nonetheless few outward indicators the divorce was coming.
The marriage was the primary for Urban and the second for Kidman, who was married to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001. Kidman additionally has two older kids with Cruise.
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